It's 31 Jan 97  11:13:02,
We'll return to Will Honea and Tony Langdon's
discussion of Warp 3 and TCP/IP
 WH> Late nights are getting to me.  I was confusing some old NE1000 cards
 WH> I once tried.  These don't use shared RAM.  After some mucking about,
 WH> the problem appears to be confined to one machine - and OLD Cheetah
 WH> 486 - and the problem is a recurrance of an old one.  With OS/2 2.0, I
 WH> had a devil of a time getting this thing to boot reliably.  It turned
 WH> out to be something in the initial loader program that would make
 WH> back-to-back write to the real time clock.  The writes were too close
 WH> together, so the RTC never got initialized properly and INT 8 was
 WH> screwy - like 3000 ms instead of 33....
Hmm, the best solution is probably self-evident.  Maybe it's time to
shout yourself a new motherboard, as it looks likely that the RTC (or
other) problems could resurface on your next upgrade. :-)
 WH> Anyway, I still can't figure how these cards cause it since the
 WH> addresses are well removed, irqs are clean.  It's become more a case
 WH> of 'mental mastrubation' than anything else, but thanks for you return.
Hehe, can get like that. :-)
... Fun, fun, fun: [........../]
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